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Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 1-9 / Kreutzer Quartet

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-08-28

Works: Gloria Coates: Quartet for Strings no 5; Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 6; Quartet for Strings no 7 for Quartet for Strings & organ ("Angels"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Quartet for...
Performers: Adams, Philip; Chadwick, Roderick; Heyde, Neil; Skaerved, Peter Sheppard
Conductors: ; Finnissy, Michael
Ensemble: ; Kreutzer String Quartet

ClassicsToday.com - Reviewing original release of Quartets 1, 5 & 6
At long last, the aural equivalent to Salvador Dali's melted watches! Gloria Coates (b. 1939)...continue...

Gloria Coates: String Quartet No. 9, Sonata for Violin solo; Lyric Suite

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-09-28

Works: Gloria Coates: Quartet for Strings no 9; Sonata for solo violin; Lyric Suite, 'Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music', for Piano Trio
Performers: Chadwick, Roderick; Goff, Morgan; Heyde, Neil; Skaerved, Peter Sheppard; Trandafilovski, Mihailo

The Munich-based American composer Gloria Coates is best known as a symphonist, though she has also composed nine string quartets as well as vocal and...continue...

Class of '38 - Corigliano, Coates, Rzewski, Serebrier, etc / Slatkin, Nashville SO, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-08-26

Works: Gloria Coates: Symphony no 15; John Corigliano: A Black November Turkey; José Serebrier: Fantasia for strings; Frederic Rzewski: Four North American Ballads; John Harbison: Trio for Piano and ...
Performers: Andrea Moore [Score Preparation/Timpani]; Fischer, Norman; Kierman, Jeanne; Raat, Ralph van; Rothenberg, Sarah
Conductors: Boder, Michael; Serebrier, José;
Ensemble: ; Amelia Piano Trio; Camera of Houston; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

The eight composers on this compilation, all of them born in 1938, adhere to no single trend or movement, yet each is united by an...continue...

American Classics - Gloria Coates: Symphony no 15, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-12-11

Works: Gloria Coates: Symphony no 15; Cantata da Requiem ("'WW II Poems for Peace"), for soprano & chamber orchestra; Transitions, for chamber orchestra
Performers: Dunn, Teri
Conductors: Boder, Michael; Heider, Werner
Ensemble: Ars Nova Nuremberg; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gloria Coates is one of the most startlingly individual figures on the contemporary music scene, and the most prolific female symphonist in history. Her 'Symphony...continue...

American Classics - Gloria Coates: Symphonies 1, 7 and 14

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-04-18

Works: Gloria Coates: Symphony no 14; Symphony no 1 "Music on Open Strings"; Symphony no 7 ("Dedicated to those who brought down the Wall in PEACE")
Performers: Curfs, Raymond
Conductors: Poppen, Christoph; Rotter, Jorge; Henzold, Olaf
Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Munich Chamber Orchestra; Siegerland Orchestra

Despite her brave new sound world, Gloria Coates is something of a classicist among modern composers. Having now written fourteen symphonies, three of which are...continue...

American Classics - Coates: String Quartets Vol 2

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-01-01

Works: Gloria Coates: Quartet for Strings no 7 for Quartet for Strings & organ ("Angels"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Quartet for Strings no 8; Quartet for Strings no 4; Quartet for Strings no 3
Performers: Adams, Philip
Conductors: Finnissy, Michael
Ensemble: Kreutzer String Quartet

"No one is writing music quite like this!" - Detroit Free Press...continue...

American Classics - Explore America Vol 1

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-05-01

Works: Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, ballet for 13 instruments; Charles Wakefield Cadman: Four American Indian Songs, for voice & piano, Op. 45; John Alden Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator, suit...
Performers: Bolcom, William [Composer]; Buswell, James; Corley, Maria; Currie, Colin; Farley, Carole; Posnak, Paul; Rorem, Ned; Starker, Janos; Taylor, Darryl; Weber, Janice; Zazofsky, Peter
Conductors: Gambil, Paul; Williams, John McLaughlin; Alsop, Marin; ; Davies, Dennis R.; Sinclair, James; Stromberg, William T.; Schermerhorn, Kenneth; Brion, Keith
Ensemble: ; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Kreutzer Quartet; Nashville Chamber Orchestra; Northern Sinfonia Chorus; Royal Artillery Band; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Ukraini...

The American Classics series captures some of the great moments of American music. In this collection, as wide-ranging and diverse as our land, little-known gems...continue...

American Classics - G. Coates: Quartets / Kreutzer Quartet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-03-01

Works: Gloria Coates: Quartet for Strings no 5; Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 6
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

"There is a special atmosphere about her music. She has her own sound, which is difficult to acquire these days... Committed performances, well recorded." -Gramophone...continue...